MEXICOCITY, May 24 (Reuters) - Mexico's economy shrank in the first quarter of 2019 from the previous three-month period as services and industrial activity contracted, data showed on Friday, dealing a blow to the new government's drive to convince investors it can boost growth in LatinAmerica's second-largest economy....

Over the past few years, corruption and failed government policies have led Venezuela's economy to collapse, causing infrastructure to crumble and leaving millions of Venezuelans in poverty ... Meanwhile the production and export of goods have dropped off dramatically, leaving an economy that was once the strongest in LatinAmerica in dire straits....

... said that it expected the world economy to grow by 3.0 per cent both in 2019 and in 2020, the Efe news reported ... Meanwhile, the developing economies as a group will expand at 4.1 per cent, with LatinAmerica and the Caribbean bringing up the rear with growth of just 1.1 per cent....

Brazil's lower house of Congress voted on Tuesday to allow foreign-controlled airlines to operate domestic flights in LatinAmerica's largest economy, opening the door to more competition in an increasingly concentrated market ... ....

Most LatinAmerican countries, while enjoying growth during good times, are exporters of commodities (generally related to agriculture, mining, oil and gas), and see their economies and currencies tumble when prices crash, as it happened in Brazil in 2015-2016; this does not look ......

Mexico's Finance Ministry on Monday laid out plans to withhold tax from drivers for ride-hailing and food delivery firms such as Uber Technologies Inc and Rappi, part of a push to improve tax collection in LatinAmerica's 2nd largest economy... ....

Mexico's Finance Ministry on Monday laid out plans to withhold tax from drivers for ride-hailing and food delivery firms such as Uber Technologies Inc and Rappi, part of a push to improve tax collection in LatinAmerica's 2nd largest economy... ....

According to the weekly report issued every Monday by the central bank, after consulting 100 financial market economists, this is the 12th consecutive drop in growth forecasts for LatinAmerica's largest economy... Regarding the exchange market, analysts forecast that the U.S ... dollar last week ... dollars in 2019. Enditem ....

... slowing economy ... LatinAmerica. Brazil is likely to suffer additional cuts to its 2019 growth outlook when the central bank releases a weekly survey of economists on Monday, days after a key activity indicator suggested Latin America’s largest economy shrank in the first quarter....